King of Retail
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $25.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 660 series or AMD 7850, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.49. It has been discounted 78 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supermarket Simulator ($11.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats The Tenants ($19.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 12 of the 627 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Not a bad premise for a game, the controls are terrible but you get used to them. Not a lot in the way of stock management or details on sales as much as I would like, plus it would be nice to have more time before or after closing to figure things our but the game forces you back to your office. It's not a terribly hard game once you figure it all out but once you do, that is it, it is a lot of the same a slight...
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Cite this score
King of Retail scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/968250/king-of-retailReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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